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TYPE BED FOR PRINTING MACHINES. No. 361,224. Patented Apr. 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR KGNIG, OF KLOSTER-OBERZELL, NEAR XVURZBURG, BAVARIA, GER- MANY,ASSIGNOR TO KOENIG 8s BAUER, OFSAME PLACE.

TYPE-BED FOR PRINTING-MAC HINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,224, dated April12, 1887.

Application filed September 1, 1856. Serial No.2l2,392: (No model.)Patented in Germany November 26,18815,No.30,410; in France February 8,1886, No.174,015, and in England July 9, 1886, No. 0,000.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it know-n that I, EDGAR KoNIe, a subject of the King of Bavaria, andresiding at Kioster-OberZell, near Wiirzburg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria,German Empire, have invented new and useful Inprovements in Type-Bedsfor Printing-Machines, (for which Letters Patent have been granted inGermany, No. 36,410,.

- dated November 26, 1885; in France, No

174,015, dated February 8,1886, and in Great Britain, No. 9,000, datedJuly 9, 1886,) and whereof the following is a specification. 1

- My invention relates to the type-cylinders of rotatingprinting-presses, and more especially to type beds of such cylinderswhich are provided with column-rules having flanges at their base, andcolumn bottom plates having grooves or rabbets to engage thesaid'flanges; and the object of the invention is to furnish means forallowing stereotype blocks extending from one column into the other tobe inserted into the composition of type, and for securing the saidblocks in their places by means of the said rules. For this purpose therim of the typebed is provided with slits, through which thecolumn-rules can be withdrawn from between the columns. Thetype-bed isfitted with extensions forming trays for receiving the portions of therules that may project from the compo sition of type, and the rules areprovided at one or both ends with projections or tenons adapted toengage with recesses in the stereotype-blocks in view of securing themin their places.

On the annexed two sheets of drawings is represented a typebedinvolvingmyimp-rovemerits. Figure l is a transverse section of a portion thereof;Fig. 2, a plan, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section on line 1 2 of Fig- 1.The figures 1 and 3 are drawn on double the scale of The type-bed e isprovided with dovetail grooves, into which are slipped the dovetailledges of the column bottom plates, q, the said plat-es being thus helddown upon the bed,whi'le they may be shifted transversely, in order toallow the composition of type to be firmly compressed by means of thewedges h, Fig. 1. The plates q have at their edges longitudinal groovesor rabbets, which receive the flanged feet of the column-rulesr. Intothe transverse portions zof the rim of the type-bed are out the slits b,Fig. 2, through which" the rules or may be partly or entirely withdrawnfrom and introduced between the plates q and the composition of typewhile the form is not tightened up. Moreover, column-rules are providedfor that are of various lengths, butshorter than the length a column-sayone-half, one-third, and one-quarter of this length. The saidarrangement and the short rules allow stereotype-blocks 0, especiallysuch as are of a width greater than the width of a column, to be soinserted into the composition of type as to extend from one column, forinstance, S, into the other one, S The operation required for thispurpose consists in, first, slipping in between the plates q of thecolumns S and S a rule having a length equal to the desired distance ofthe block 0 from the foot or the head of the c olumn,(as the case maybe,) thereupon putting the block into its place, and, finally, slidinganothershort rule from the end of the frame against the block.

Considering that if the sizes of the short rules are not to be varied toan inconvenient degree, a portion of the second or outer short rule willordinarily project from the form,and, as this projecting portion wouldbe apt to be damaged and to causeinconvenience, the typebed is made withan extension, W, forming a tray adapted to receive and protect the saidprojecting portions.

In order to secure the stereotype-blocks O in their place by means ofthe rules r, the latter are provided with projections or tenons r, Fig.3, and the blocks with holes or recesses corresponding to the saidprojections or tenons, so that if the rules and the block are pushedfairly together the projections or tenons of the rules will enter intothe holes or recesses of the block and prevent the same from risingabove the face of the type.

I claim as myinvention- 1. The c0mbinati0n,witha type-bed having a rim,z,with slits b, and column bottom plates, q, provided at theirlongitudinal edges with grooves or rabbets, of column-rules r, havingflanges adapted to slide in the said grooves or rabbets, and thestereotype-blocks O, inserted between the ends of two rules, 1',substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combinatiomwith a type-bed having a rim, z,with slits b, andcolumn bottom plates, q, provided at their longitudinal edges withgrooves 01' rabbets, of column-rules 1', having flanges adapted to slidein the said grooves or rabbets, and projections r, and stereotypeblocks0, provided with recesses engaging the said projections r',substantiallyas and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with column bottom plates, q, provided at theirlongitudinal edges with grooves or rabbets, and column-rules r, havingflanges adapted to slide in the said I 5 grooves or rabbcts, of atype-bed having the rim 2, with slits b, and the extension \V,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing wit 2o nesses.

EDGAR KONIG.

Witnesses:

HENRY SPRINGHANN, B. R01.

